Articles tagged "Renal injury"

2016 American Transplant Congress
Immunosuppressive Actions of CLI95 and CORM401 on TLR4 in Renal Ischemia Reperfusion Injury.
P. Luke,^1,2,5 G. Cepinskas,^1,4 H. Alharbi,^3,5 A. Haig,^3,5 R. Bhattacharjee.^1,2,5
¹Matthew Mailing Centre, London Health Sciences Centre, London, Canada; ²Surgery, Western University, London, Canada; ³Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Western University, London, Canada.
Background: Kidneys from all donor sources are highly sensitive to ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI). However, grafts donated after cardiac death (DCD) sustain an increased incidence of…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Reciprocal Effects of HDAC1 and HDAC2 Deletion on Renal Cold Ischemia Survival and Nuclear Co-Repressor Complex Expression.
D. Aufhauser Jr,¹ D. Murken,¹ Z. Wang,¹ A. Samanta,² G. Ge,¹ T. Bhatti,³ W. Hancock,^2,3 M. Levine.¹
¹Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; ²Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; ³Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.
Introduction: Class I histone/protein deacetylases (HDACs) 1 and 2 bear >85% protein sequence homology and conventionally are thought to have similar function via occupancy in…
2016 American Transplant Congress
NecroX-7 Attenuates Ischemia-Reperfusion Renal Injury.
K. Lee,¹ Y. Ham,¹ J. Jeon,¹ Y. Chang,² S. Chung,¹ K. Na,¹ D. Choi.¹
¹Renal Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Chungnam National University Hospital, Daejeon, Korea; ²Internal Medicine, Daejeon Saint Mary Hospital, College of Medicine, Catholic University, Daejeon, Korea.
Introduction: Recently mitochondrial damage has been known to play a major role in various renal injury mechanisms including ischemia-reperfusion (IR) renal injury. Mitochondrial injury and…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Acute Kidney Injury After Liver Transplantation Is Set in Motion Early After Reperfusion of the Liver Graft: A Prospective Cohort Study.
I. Jochmans,¹ N. Meurisse,² D. Monbaliu,¹ J. Pirenne.¹
¹Abdominal Transplant Surgery, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; ²Abdominal Transplant Surgery, University of Liège, Academic Hospital, Liège, Belgium.
Objective: Determine creatinine changes during liver transplantation and risk factors for acute kidney injury (AKI) in a prospective cohort study (NCT01333319).Background Data: AKI, a major…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) Associated with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) in Paediatric Non-Kidney Transplant Recipients.
C. Williams,^1,2 K. Borges,² T. Banh,² J. Vasilevska-Ristovska,² R. Chanchlani,^1,2 V. Ng,^1,2 A. Dipchand,^1,2 M. Solomon,^1,2 D. Hebert,^1,2 S. Kim,^1,3 B. Astor,⁴ R. Parekh.^1,2,3
¹University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; ²Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada; ³University Health Network, Toronto, Canada; ⁴University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Background: Kidney dysfunction is common after solid organ transplantation; however, rates of post-transplant AKI and CKD in children are unknown.Objective: Determine rates of AKI and…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Mining the Human Proteome for Monitoring Renal Transplant Injury.
T. Sigdel,¹ Y. Gao,² J. He,² A. Wang,¹ C. Nicora,² D. Smith,² W. Qian,² D. Camp,² M. Sarwal.¹
¹Surgery, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco; ²Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland.
The human urinary proteome reflects systemic and inherent renal injury perturbations and can be harnessed to define biomarkers for different kidney transplant injury states. Through…
2016 American Transplant Congress
YKL-40 Predicts Renal Recovery in Deceased-Donor Transplantation.
J. Puthumana,¹ I. Hall,¹ P. Reese,² B. Schröppel,³ F. Weng,⁴ H. Thiessen-Philbrook,¹ M. Doshi,⁵ V. Rao,¹ C. Lee,⁶ J. Elias,⁶ L. Cantley,¹ C. Parikh.¹
¹Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; ²Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension Division, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; ³Section of Nephrology, University Hospital, Ulm, Germany; ⁴Saint Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ; ⁵Division of Nephrology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI; ⁶School of Medicine and Biological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI.
Background Deceased-donor kidneys with acute kidney injury (AKI) are often discarded for fear of poor transplantation outcomes. Donor biomarkers that predict post-transplant renal recovery could…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Deceased Donor Urine C5a Predicts Donor and Recipient Acute Kidney Injury.
B. Schroppel,¹ P. Heeger,² I. Hall,³ M. Doshi,⁴ F. Weng,⁵ P. Reese,⁶ C. Parikh.³
¹University Hospital, Ulm, Germany; ²Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York; ³Program of Applied Translational Research, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven; ⁴Wayne State University, Detroit; ⁵Barnabas Health, Livingston; ⁶University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Anti-complement therapies are currently being tested in human kidney transplantation to prevent DGF. In this large prospective, cohort study of 469 deceased organ donors, we…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Many Discarded Kidneys Are Similar to Kidneys Accepted for Transplantation as Judged by Their Histologic Lesions and Molecular AKI Scores.
K. Famulski,¹ J. Reeve,¹ O. Aubert,² A. Loupy,² S. Niderhaus,³ J. Bromberg,³ P. Halloran.¹
¹University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada; ²Necker Hospital, Paris, France; ³University of Maryland, Baltimore.
There is an increase in the number kidneys from older brain dead donors (DBD). Many are discarded based on conventional features (clinical or histology). Thus…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Influence of AKIN Stage on the Outcome of Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation (DDKTx).
I. Qaqish, D. Haakinson, K. Reddy, M. Smith, H. Khamash, H. Raymond.
Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ.
BackgroundTransplanting kidneys from donors with AKI is one of the methods to minimize the disparity between numbers of listed patient and donor pool. Our aim…